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Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972

MANFRED MANN'S strength, perhaps his only one, is as an interpreter. His jazzlike motions with Chapter Three – the group that was broken up so that he could form Earth Band – were in context, excellent, but they did not command. They demanded, at once, too much and too little.

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